About Baguio

There are many ways to understand about Baguio and its city but learning what Wikipedia has written is enough for you to know more about Baguio City. Baguio is one of the known coldest place you could ever be in the Philippines and most Filipino’s knows this when they heard about the word “Baguio”.

According to Wikipedia

Baguio, officially the City of Baguio (Ibaloi: Ciudad ne Bagiw; Ilocano: Siudad ti Baguio; Pangasinan: Siyudad na Baguio; Tagalog: Lungsod ng Baguio) and often referred to as Baguio City, is a highly urbanized city in northern Luzon of the Philippines, now also known as Summer Capital of the Philippines. It is geographically located within Benguet, serving as the provincial capital from 1901 to 1916, but has since been administered independently from the province following its conversion into a chartered city. The city has become the center of business, commerce, and education in northern Luzon, as well as the regional center of the Cordillera Administrative Region. According to the 2015 census, Baguio has a population of 345,366.

Baguio was established as a hill station by the Americans in 1900 at the site of an Ibaloi village known as Kafagway. It was the United States’ only hill station in Asia. The name of the city is derived from bagiw, the Ibaloi word for “moss”. The city is situated at an altitude of approximately 1,500 meters (4,900 feet) in the Luzon tropical pine forests ecoregion conducive for the growth of mossy plants and orchids.

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